Hand stamp



Sept. 6, 1927. 1,641,507

c. STAGE HAND sum Fil ed Auz. 10. 1926 Inventor CZa//wejf 83a 6 Attorney of the said embodiment.

off the screw 4, place the apertured arm 8 of the thumb or linger piece (5 on the shank of the screw 4 andthen turn the handle 3 down upon the screw shank until the arm 8 of the auxiliary thumb or finger piece is strongly clamped between the lower end of the handle 8 and the top or prong bar of the stamp body 1.

It will also be understood that my improvement is extremely simple and inexpensive and does not in any'measure render a hand stamp cumbersome.

} I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred em bodiment of my invention in order to impart a full, clear, and exact understanding do not desire, however, to be understood as limiting myself to the precise construction shown and described, my invention being defined by my appended claims within the scope of which structural changes may be made without departure from my invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let'- ters Patent is,

1. In a hand stamp and in combination,

a frame or body, a screw carried bythe frame or body and having a shank extending upwardly therefrom, handle extending upwardly relative to the frame or body and receiving the shank of the said screw, and an auxiliary thumb or finger piece having a dished body portion disposed in front of the frame or body and also having an apertured arm extending from said body portion and receiving the shank of the screw and arranged in interposed relation between the top of the body or frame and the lower end of the handle. V

2.1a hand stan'ip having a body and a handle extending upwardly from said body and also having an auxiliary thumb or finger piece connected with the body and the handle and extending forwardly from the body adjacent to the point at which the handle is joined to the body and disposedsubstantially at right angles to the longitudinal vertical plane of the body.

3. As a new article of manufacture, an auxiliary thumb or iinger piece for application to and use in hand stamps, the said auxiliary thumb or linger piece being formed in one piece in general plate-like configuration and having a dishedv body or major portion and also having a reduced and apertur-ed arm extending from said body or major portion.

' testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CLARENCE IRVIN STAGE. 

